Featured Book: Painters of the Wasatch Mountains
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2005 Gibbs-Smith Publishing; 268 pages
ISBN#: 1586858505
Internationally known for her mountain renditions, Swartz was recently published in the inaugural edition of Painters of the Wasatch Mountains. Says Thomas F. Rugh, Founding Director, Museum of Utah Art & History and co-author of Painters of the Wasatch Mountains. “Susan Swartz’s alpine images capture man’s attraction to landscape. The richness of her canvases reflects the lure of the American west--the yearning to follow paths that will lead to discovery and enlightenment. The beauty and density of her wooded landscapes are a universal symbol of the journey to a better world. Swartz is a significant contemporary American landscape painter.”
Book Description
A distinct painting development with regard to the American West's Wasatch Range emerged in the nineteenth century and persists even today. These "painters of the Wasatch" have set many precedents through their artistic interpretations of this mountain subject matter. Painters of the Wasatch Mountains presents for the first time a survey of the gamut of painters who formed and have carried forward an expression of nature's mighty gift to both visitors and residents of Utah. This is natural successor to the Hudson River School in the East, and the “Wasatch school” includes painters such as Thomas Moran, Albert Bierstadt, H.L.A. Culmer, and Maynard Dixon.